muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel Size:50×70 cm Title: The Mummy

Title: The Mummy

"the most acclaimed American artist of his generation"

Münchner Faschingsfest“

and printmaker associated with the Vienna Secession and the Art Nouveau style

muscinae polytrichum fine art print ernst haeckel Size:50×70 cm Title: The MummyLook closely at a patch of moss and a whole forest in miniature appears which is exactly what Ernst Haeckel captured in this plate of Polytrichum, the tall "haircap" mosses. Slender stalks topped with delicate capsules rise across the sheet in fresh, layered greens, the tiny structures magnified and arranged so that something usually crushed underfoot becomes elegant and architectural. The illustration is part of Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in